You know that exercise is good for you, but did you know that it has advantages for your love life too?

It’s something that we all know we should do often but frequently don’t do enough: exercise. It’s labor intensive, time-consuming and sometimes painful, so it’s no wonder why many of us abandon exercise three weeks into the new year. However, it’s possible that many more people would hit the gym more frequently if they knew the benefits it would have on their love life.

Yes, it’s true! Exercise can make-over your romantic relationship. Here’s how:

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Sometimes you get stuck in a rut when it comes to exercise. We think it’s the devil when we have to go to all that effort.. Our minds start to think, is it really worth it? Can I be bothered… It’s not fun!

GHA is here to the rescue! We have found some help, to keep the fun in that seemingly dreadful word called ‘Exercise’.

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Source: Heart Foundation

Your heart needs care for life. A healthy heart is about enjoying a healthy lifestyle and making this a part of your everyday life. It is also about taking positive steps to reduce risk factors.

Everyone can do something to help prevent heart disease, including people who already have heart disease or who have had a heart event. The good news is that if you lead a healthy lifestyle, as outlined below, you can reduce your risk of developing heart disease.

The best ways to reduce the risk of developing heart disease, and to help prevent it getting worse if it already exists is to reduce or remove the risk factors over which we have some control.

To do this, have ongoing heart disease risk assessments with your doctor and lead a healthy lifestyle as outlined below. Being male, increasing age and having a family history of early death from heart disease are also risk factors for developing heart disease, but are much more difficult to control or change!

1. Be smokefree

Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen in your blood and damages the artery walls. Stopping smoking is the single most important thing you can do to reduce your risk of coronary heart disease. For more information on quitting smoking, call the Quitline on 131 848.

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Article from myDr

There is no easy way to lose weight. A gradual weight loss of 0.5 kg to 1 kg per week is optimal weight loss. It takes a long time for weight to be put on, and the most lasting way to lose weight is to do it gradually and let the new lifestyle become the healthy habit.

A change in lifestyle is usually necessary to sustain weight loss. This involves increased activity and different eating habits.

Beware of products that advertise ‘no effort or exercise required’; miracle ingredients in special supplements that speed up metabolism or ‘burn fat’; rapid, major weight loss; very restrictive or limited variety of food diets; or other fad diets.

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Source: Tony Ferguson

Ingredients

• ½ onion, finely chopped
• 4 x 120g lean mince (ground ) beef (females)
• 4 x 220g lean mince (ground) beef (males)
• 2 x Tablespoons finely chopped flat leaf Italian parsley
• 1 x clove garlic, crushed
• 2 x Teaspoons olive oil

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